Career
Jakubowski founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 after earning his PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison [2] . The project’s goal is to create the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), a modular collection of open source machines designed to support small-scale, self-sufficient communities through distributed manufacturing and open design principles. [3]
Jakubowski presented his work in a widely viewed TED talk titled Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization in 2011, which helped bring international attention to the OSE project. [4] Following the talk, OSE received media coverage from outlets such as Make magazine, Gizmodo, and Grist, and won Make magazine’s “Green Project Contest” the same year. [5]
In 2012, Jakubowski became a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a TED Fellow. [6]
Most of OSE’s research and prototyping activities take place at Factor e Farm, the organization’s headquarters in rural Missouri. [7]
In 2016, Jakubowski and researcher Catarina Mota co-founded the Open Building Institute (OBI), which focuses on developing open source tools and methods for affordable, sustainable housing. [8]
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